THE SOUTH AMERICAN SERIES
EDITED BY MARTIN HUME, M.A.
ARGENTINA
BY
W. A. HIRST
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
MARTIN HUME, M.A.
WITH A MAP AND SIXTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
T. FISHER UNWIN
LONDON LEIPSIC
ADELPHI TERRACE INSELSTRASSE 20
| First Edition | 1910 |
| Second Impression | 1911 |
| Third Impression | 1912 |
| Fourth Impression | 1914 |
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PREFACE
In establishing the commercial and industrial greatnessof Argentina my countrymen have co-operated with herpeople for a longer time and more efficiently than anyother foreign nation. The land and the people aretherefore a subject of lively interest to Englishmen,and it is hoped that this sketch, however inadequate,will help towards a closer knowledge of Argentina. Ihave received much valuable assistance from manysources, but I do not indicate them, because I do notwish to shift the blame for any inaccuracies that maybe found in these pages. For all such mistakes I amsolely responsible.
April 22, 1910.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| INTRODUCTION | XV | |
| CHAPTER | ||
| I. | THE COUNTRY—ITS FOUR DIVISIONS—THE RIVERS—THE CLIMATE | 1 |
| II. | EARLIEST HISTORY AND ETHNOLOGY | 16 |
| III. | THE EUROPEAN CONQUEST | 24 |
| IV. | THE SPANISH DOMINION | 33 |
| V. | THE SPANISH COLONIAL SYSTEM | 49 |
| VI. | THE ENGLISH FAILURE IN ARGENTINA | 65 |
| VII. | THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE | 76 |
| VIII. | ANARCHY AND DESPOTISM—THE WAR WI ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |